How would I make a brick follow a certain path as if it is moving like a car?

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#1

So, I am planning to make a car that follows a certain path (around a race track) and that’s the only path. One attempt that I thought I could do was making a sort of thin invisible track which the car must follow, but wasn’t entirely sure what script I would use for that. I thought that the :MoveTo might come in use for making this, but also wasn’t entirely sure on how to use it.

If you could suggest something I could look into that might work that would be great, I’m not requesting any sort of code as I want to use this as a learning curve, thanks!

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#2

To add, I don’t need it to go different ways each time, I just want each car to follow an exact path on the racetrack which is the same every single time.

#3

you could maybe turn the race car into an npc and probably use this

then change the npc walkspeed

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#4

Also you should have the npc movement looped, if what ur trying to achieve is to have it go around the race track.

#5

How can I turn the car into an NPC? I want the player to sit in the car etc, so it would be a weld of different parts.

#6

then after u have weld the different parts

use some of the scripts in this video to help u out

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#7

TweenService and PathFindingService should work fine

#8

Are you trying to make the car go to a part? Using a model and welding it to a NPC will make it have some extremely sharp turns.

Extreme turns are demonstrated in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHSZIg3Q94M - You’ll notice that when making a U-Turn, it is an extremely sharp turn.

I created a car that essentially follows a part and finds the angle between the part and the car and drives towards it. Are you looking for something like this: AI CARS.rbxl (148.2 KB)

Note: This does not use the pathfinding service given by Roblox.

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#9

Sorry for bump, but having to print the target angle every time causes the game to lag extremely. I fixed the lag by removing the Print() function in your script.

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#10

Whoops, I didn’t realize I left that in there. I was just using that for testing.

#11

You can use pathfinding to place some parts on the path which car will go. And then you should use tween service for smooth move.

Here is a example of tween:

local ts = game:GetService(“TweenService”)
local part = script.Parent
local info = TweenInfo.new(2)
local properties = {Position = —position of the part which generated in way—}

local tween = ts:Create(script.Parent,info,properties)

tween:Play()

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